Dwile flonking, the Glossary
The English game of dwile flonking (also dwyle flunking) is an East Anglian pub game, involving two teams of twelve players,Edward Brooke-Hitching.[1]
Table of Contents
14 relations: Australia, Beccles, Ben Schott, Chamber pot, East Anglia, Edward Brooke-Hitching, Hong Kong, Invented tradition, It's a Square World, Lewes, Michael Bentine, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pub game, William Collins, Sons.
- Culture in Suffolk
- English games
- English traditions
- Pub games
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Beccles
Beccles is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk.
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Ben Schott
Ben Schott (born 26 May 1974) is a British writer, photographer, and author of the Schott's Miscellanies and Schott's Almanac series.
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Chamber pot
A chamber pot is a portable toilet, meant for nocturnal use in the bedroom.
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East Anglia
East Anglia is an area in the East of England.
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Edward Brooke-Hitching
Edward Brooke-Hitching is an English author, and a writer and researcher for the BBC panel show QI, as a member of the team known as the "QI Elves".
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
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Invented tradition
Invented traditions are cultural practices that are presented or perceived as traditional, arising from the people starting in the distant past, but which are relatively recent and often even consciously invented by identifiable historical actors.
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It's a Square World
It's a Square World is a British comedy television series starring Michael Bentine and produced by the BBC.
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Lewes
Lewes is the county town of East Sussex, England.
Michael Bentine
Michael Bentine, (born Michael James Bentin; 26 January 1922General Register Office for England and Wales – Birth Register for the March Quarter of 1922, Watford Registration District, Reference 3a 1478, listed as "Michael J. Bentin", mother's maiden name as "Dawkins". – 26 November 1996)General Register Office for England and Wales – Death Register for November 1996, Sutton Registration District, Reference C6B 296, listed as "Michael James Bentine" with a date of birth of 26 January 1922.
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (– 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings.
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Pub game
A pub game is one which is traditionally played inside or outside a pub. Dwile flonking and pub game are pub games.
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William Collins, Sons
William Collins, Sons & Co., often referred to as Collins, was a Scottish printing and publishing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, the minister of Tron Church in Glasgow.
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See also
Culture in Suffolk
English games
- Dobbert
- Dwile flonking
- Hand-in-cap
English traditions
- 'Obby 'Oss festival
- Abingdon bun throwing
- Ale conner
- Apple Wassail
- Atherstone Ball Game
- Bull running
- Bumps race
- Castleton Garland Day
- Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake
- Cotswold Olimpick Games
- Cowes Week
- Dwile flonking
- England, England
- English folk dance
- Festivals in England
- Flitch of bacon custom
- Funeral biscuit
- Henley Royal Regatta
- Hot cross bun
- Hymnus Eucharisticus
- Jack o' Lent
- Lewes Bonfire
- Lion sermon
- Maiden's garland
- May Morning
- May Week
- Maypole
- Minden Day
- Minehead Hobby Horse
- Mummers' play
- National symbols of England
- New Forest coven
- Oak Apple Day
- Pace Egg play
- Perambulation of the Town Leat
- Plough Monday
- Plough Sunday
- Royal Shrovetide Football
- Saint George's Day in England
- Simnel cake
- Swan upping
- Swearing on the Horns
- Trafalgar Day
- Wassailing
- Well dressing
Pub games
- Aunt Sally
- Bagatelle
- Bar billiards
- Barmageddon
- Bat and trap
- British and World Marbles Championship
- Cribbage
- Darts
- Devil among the tailors
- Domino games
- Dominoes
- Dwile flonking
- Nine-ball
- Penny in the hole
- Pool (cue sports)
- Pub game
- Pub golf
- Pub quiz
- Quiz League of London
- Quiz league
- Quoits
- Ringing the bull
- Shove ha'penny
- Shut the box
- Skittles (sport)
- Snooker
- Table football
- Table skittles
- Toad in the hole (game)
- World Aunt Sally Open Singles Championship
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwile_flonking
Also known as Dwile Flonkers, Dwyle flunking.